Entertainment For Lively Minds
Katy Perry
Posted by Glenbervie on 5 February 2010 - 10:36am.
Noodling around on Youtube, I came across 3OH!3 featuring Katy Perry (Starstrukk), then got lost in a backlog of Katy Perry videos. It just made me think that claims in this parish for Girls Aloud to be "classic pop" founder on the rock of Ms P who has personality, tunes and humour (or at least, her vids do). She makes GA look a bit crap, to be honest.
I suspect I may be on the verge of discovering Noughties pop which I thought wholly comprised Cowell/stage school clones/insipid R&B/bling ...
Any tips?
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The Feeling
They don't come much poppier than The Feeling. I resisted at first, thinking that I really shouldn't be enjoying something quite so cheesy, but that first album was mind-bogglingly fun pop and is still one of my most played cds. They are also fantastic live.
I can't say I care too much for Girls Aloud, to be honest. They're all very well but come across like robots. Katy Perry I know little, if anything about other than she tried to get on the Tatu 'slightly lesbian but not really' train.
Oh, and I quite like Mika's first album too. Though if I admit that round here I'm liable to get punched in the Dylans.
Girls Aloud
I was also none too keen on Girls Aloud until I heard "The Promise". I am not one of the people around here with the musical vocabulary to explain it, but it is just a magnificent pop song. Other than that I find a lot of their music works better on a purely visual level, if you get my drift.
You're right there..
That is a fantastic single, but I couldn't name another 'hit'
they've done
Biology
> The Promise.
I love Girls Aloud
There, I've said it, etc.
Not just 'Biology' and 'The Promise': there's 'The Show', 'Long Hot Summer', 'The Loving Kind', 'Sexy! No No No' etc etc.
I like the fact that 'Team Girls Aloud' come up with quite complex songs - a surprisingly high number of them have several sections, or bring in a refrain only to casually drop it from the rest of the song, or bring it back in a different form.
Stephen Fry, on a 'guilty pleasures' programme, said that one of the reasons he loved Abba was because their songs were so much better than they technically needed to be - and I think the same applies to Girls Aloud's best songs.
I think there's a reason why they've lasted five or so albums. And the girls themselves put on a great show live.
Her first album is actually quite good
I don't think she was playing "lesbian but not really," it was more taking the micky out of a certain kind of young woman who will kiss other young women (generally when drunk and in public) purely for the purposes of attention. Rather like the marketing stunt pulled by t.A.T.u's manager, in fact.
The first song I heard by Katy Perry (which convinced me to buy her album) was "UR So Gay" which lists her frustrations with (presumably) a gentleman-friend who effects many attributes associated with the gay lifestyle apart from actually being homosexual. The thing is, most of us probably have some idea of exactly the sort of young men she's talking about. I certainly know both straight women and gay men who have expressed frustration with it not being to tell from just looking whether they are in with a chance.
The video is quite fun too, but you'll have to click through to YouTube to see it.
thanks gents
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